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September 2015
Sat
26
Sep
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Ronald Wright, Novelist, historian and essayist
Sat
26
Sep
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Ronald Wright, Novelist, historian and essayist
Sat
26
Sep
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Ronald Wright, Novelist, historian and essayist
October 2015
Sat
3
Oct
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Vaclav Smil, Geography, University of Manitoba
The Vancouver Institute presents a talk by Professor Vaclav Smil, who will touch on his interdisciplinary research in the fields of energy, environmental and population change, food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk assessment, and public policy.
Sat
17
Oct
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Sheila Watt-Cloutier, OC, Activist, author and politician, International Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Council
The Vancouver Institute presents Sheila Watt-Cloutier, who will speak about her new book, The Right to Be Cold, which explores the relationship between ecological conservation of the Arctic and the survival of Inuit culture, language and ways of life, and ultimately the conservation of the world.
Sat
24
Oct
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Professor Jennifer Berdahl, Sauder School of Business, UBC
Sat
31
Oct
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Mr. Mohamed Fahmy, Former English Bureau Chief, Al Jazeera, Egypt Office
November 2015
Sat
7
Nov
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Professor Janice Stein, CM, OO, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
Sat
14
Nov
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Dr. Patrick Taylor, Novelist and Professor Emeritus, UBC Faculty of Medicine
Sat
21
Nov
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Neil Turok, Director, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics